Registering mechanism for coin



Oct. 14, 1941. w TAMQSCHAT 2,259,090

REGISTERING MECHANISM FOR COIN BANKS Filed May 29, 1939 3 Sheets-Sheet l 10 ENE V 7 /i '5 E 'IIIIIIIII [q INVENTOR. VV/L LIAM 721Mosc/4A T TTORNEY.

Oct. 14, 1941. w. TAMOSCHAT 2,259,090

REGISTERING MECHANZESM FOR COIN BANKS Filed May 29 1939 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 59.10, 9 INVENTOR.

50 W/LL/AMDMosc/ /AT 3'1 ATTORNEY.

Oc t. 14, 1941. w. TAMOSCHAT 2,259,090

REGISTERING MECHANISM FOR COIN BANKS Filed May 29, 1939 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 INVENTOR. M/ILL/AM TAMOSCf/AT TTORNEY.

Patented Oct. 14, 1941 REGISTERING MECHANISM FOR COIN BANKS William Tamoschat, New York, N. Y., assignor to David H. Zell, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application May 29, 1939, Serial No. 276,345

3 Claims.

This invention relates to registering mechanism. for coin banks and has for its general object and purpose to provide a coin registering unit comprising a minimum number of simply constructed and compactly arranged elements and embodying manually operated coin controlled means for actuating two relatively rotatable indicia-bearing dials or disks.

It is another object of the invention in one embodiment thereof, to provide co-related disks or dials rotatable about a common axis for accumulatively registering the coins deposited in the bank and also indicating the date of the last deposit, together with means for relatively rotating said disks, comprising a manually operable, lever, and a single coin controlled pawl or detent pivotally mounted on said lever.

A more particular object of the invention resides in the provision of relatively yieldable parts, on one of the registering disks or dials, and means carried by the other dial and directly cacting with said parts to displace the same from normal position to be engaged by the pawl on said operating lever whereby the first named dial is actuated at predetermined times.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a coin registering unit in which the moveable parts are completely housed and protected and compactly assembled so that said unit, when mounted in operative position will occupy a minimum space within the bank case.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the improved coin registering mechanism for banks and in the form, construction and relative arrangement of the several elements, as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and subsequently incorporated in the subjoined claims.

' In the drawings wherein I have disclosed several simple and practical embodiments of the invention and in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a coin bank provided with one embodiment of my improved registering mechanism,

Fig. 2 is a top plan View,

Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view, the coin registering unit being shown in elevation,

Fig. 5 is a vertical section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 6,

Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5,

Fig. '7 is a horizontal section taken on the line T-l of Fig. 5, the coin registering unit being shown in elevation,

Fig. 8 is an enlarged detail elevation showing in dotted and full lines different positions of the operating lever and coin control pawl,

Fig. 9 is a sectional view taken on the line 99 of Fig. 8,

Fig. 9a is a detail section on an enlarged scale of certain of the parts shown in Fig. 9.

Fig. 10 is a sectional view taken on the line H Ill-I0 of Fig. 8,

I visible. lar openings [2 through which the numeral digits Fig. 11 is a detail perspective view of the coin controlled pawl.

Fig. 12 is a front elevation of a bank provided with a slightly modified form of the device.

Fig. 13 is a detail elevation of the indicia bearing dials in assembled relation, and,

Fig. 14 is a detail elevation of one of said dials.

Referring in detail to the drawings, 5 indicates the bank case which may be of various forms. However, in the present instance, I have shown said case having a relatively wide lower portion and a comparatively narrow, dome shaped upper portion 6. The bottom of this case is open and is closely fitted within the recess 8 in a suitable base I. The front wall of the case at opposite sides of its center is provided with the ornamental escutcheons 9 and Ill, the escutcheon 9 having adjacent openings l I through which month and day indicia on the registering disks is The escutcheon I0 is provided with simiindicating the amount of coins collected in the bank are visible.

The top wall of the dome section 6 of the bank case is provided with a longitudinal slot or opening 13 for the operating lever of the coin registering unit Which will now be described.

The registering unit comprises a disk or dial l4 having an inner area marked with the months of the year as at l5, each month being repeated three times, and in radial alignment with the month designations is marked with the numerals 0 to 35 consecutively as at Hi to indicate the number of dollars contained in the bank. Projecting radially from this marked section of the dial and in offset relation to the plane thereof, said dial is provided with thirty-six resiliently yieldable fingers ll, the purpose of which will be later explained.

A second dial or disk l8 of annular form closely surrounds the inner marked portion of the dial tantly spaced points with a lug 22 projected.

from the plane thereof for bearing. contact against the resiliently yieldable fingers ll of the disk I4.

The registering disks I4 and !8 thus assembled in closely superposed relation are compactly mounted in a housing 23 which comprises a sheet metal plate having a peripheral rim or flange 24, said flange being formed at spaced points with bayonet lugs 25 for locking engagement in the slots 21 of a ring 26 which overlies the toothed marginal edge of the annular disk l8. The housing plate 23 is also preferably provided with an annular bead 28 for contact with the rear face of the registering disk 14 as clearly shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings.

A metal sleeve 29 is centrally fixed at one of its ends in the housing plate 23 and projects rearwardly therefrom. An operating lever 30 is pivotally mounted at its lower end upon the other end of the sleeve 29 and is separated from the housing plate 23 by the spacer 3| surrounding said sleeve.

The operating lever 36 comprises a substantial ly triangular shaped plate provided at its upper edge with a finger piece 32 projecting upwardly and outwardly through the slot I3 in the top wall of the bank case. A slot 33 in the lever plate concentric with the axis thereof receives the lug 34 projecting from the housing plate 23 to limit pivotal movement of'the lever in each direction. Said lever is yieldingly held in its normal position by a suitable spring 30' with the finger piece 32 thereof projecting through the right hand end of the slot I3.

Below said slot a coin supporting flange 35 is struck from the lever plate and extends between the same and the rear face of the housing plate 23. v V g Upon the front side of the lever 30 and adjacent the finger piece 32 a pawl 36 is pivotally.

mounted at one of its ends as at 31, and is normally yieldingly held in contact with a stop lug 38 on the lever by means of a suitable spring indicated at 39; The pawl 36 has a tail piece 4-0 provided with a coin engaging flange Al on one edge thereof. At its pivoted end the pawl 36" is formed with the lug 42 projecting outwardly and overlying the edges of the registering disk 18. In the normal position of the pawl the lug 42 thereof is disposed beyondthe outer ends of the fingers IT. This lug has a slot or recess 43 in its lower edge to accommodate the spring fingers I! of the disk [4; The end portion 44 of said lug at the outerside of the slot 43 is positioned in the plane of the annular disk I8 and is adapted to c'o'act with the teeth 2| of said'disk when said pawl is' actuated by the coin as hereinafter described.

To the housing wall 23 one or more light leaf springs 23" are secured which exert sufficient frictionalpressure against the inner ends of the yieldable fingers ll to prevent casual rotation of the disk Mrel-ative' to thedisk I8.

It will be evident from the above that the coin registering unit comprises relatively few elements which are very compactly arranged and assembled together with housing plate 23 and operating lever 36 for insertion into the bank case 5. As seen in Figs. 3 and 5 of the drawings, the upper portion of said unit fits closely in the dome shaped top section 6 of the case and in close relation to the front wall thereof so that the indicia carried by the two disks l4 and I8 will be easily and clearly visible through the openings H and i2 in said wall. A spacer plate 45 is arranged between the lower portion of the ring 26 and the front wall of the bank case and said ring rigidly secured or fastened to said wall by means of a rivet, screw or analogous fastening means, indicated at 46. Thus it is seenthat with this single securing means for the registering unit, the same may be easily, quickly and rigidly fixed in proper position with respect to the sight openings H and I2 of the bank case.

Banks of the character above described are widely used for the collection of coins of small denominations to be deposited at periodic intervals in savings accounts or used for the purpose of paying insurance premiums. As herein disclosed, the amount indicia of the registering mechanism is in multiples of ten, and therefore only the United States ten cent piece or dime is to be inserted in the bank. In order to prevent the insertion of larger or thicker coins, the housing wall 23 is provided with a lug 41 (see Fig. 10), projecting toward the operating lever 36 so that the distance between the end of this lug and the face of the lever is substantially the same as the thickness of a newly minted dime. Thus larger or thicker coins cannot be forced downwardly between the operating lever and the housing plate 23 and possibly become so tightly wedged as to render the registering mechanism inoperative.

When the dime is inserted through the coin entrance slot I 3 it drops downwardly betweenv the lever 30 and plate 23 and rests upon the supporting flange 35 on said lever as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 8. of the drawings. When lever 30 is moved to the left from its normal position, the flange 4| of pawl 36 rides upon the upper edge of the coin, the movement of the latter upon flange 35 being arrested by the stop lug 34. Thus pawl 36 will be pivotally actuated against the resistance of spring 39, and its flange 42 moved dowjnwardly to position the part 44 thereof in alignment with one of the teeth 2! on registering disk l3. In the continued movement of operating lever 36 said disk will thus be rotated one step to position the proper centsindicating numerals 20 opposite one of the sight openings I2 and the proper day indicating number I9 opposite one of the sight openings H. In such operation, the yieldable fingers l! of the registering disk H! are received in the recess 43 of the pawl lug 42 so that the latter registering disk will not be 0perated. But, after nine dimes have thus been inserted into the bank, one of the lugs 22 on the disk l8 will be engaged against one of the fingers ll of the disk l4 and will press this finger out of its normal plane and inwardly of the recess 43 in the pawl lug 42 so that in the next operation, when the tenth dime is inserted, said lug 42in addition to engaging one of the teeth 2| on disk l8 will also engage said deflected finger I! so that both registering disks will be operated. Therefore, as the digits appear in the sight opening l2, the proper dollar indicating number 16 on the disk 14 will also appear in the adjacent opening l2. The succeeding day number 19 will appear in one of the openings II, but the month indication 15 will not be changed until 30 dimes have been deposited, since each of said month indications is repeated three times on the disk l4.

After each operation the lever 30 is returned to its normal position by spring 30' and as the supporting flange 35 moves to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 8, the coin drops downwardly into the bank thus releasing pressure against the end of the pawl 35 which is also returned to its normal position by the spring 39.

From the above description it will be appreciated that I have devised a very simple and efiiciently operating registering mechanism whereby an accurate indication of the amount of money contained in the bank will be given at all times, and also the date of the last deposit. The registering disks M and I 8 may be reset by means of a suitable key indicated at 48 in Fig. 6 of the drawings. The end of this key is received in the tubular grommet 29 and is provided with a rectangular terminal portion 49 adapted to engage in a slot 53 of similar form centrally provided in the registering disk [4. The rear Wall of the bank case has a guide bushing for the key suitably fixed thereto. By turning the key in an anticlockwise direction as viewed from the rear, the two disks are rotated together by engagement of lugs 22 with the fingers H, to thereby reset the disk I3. By then turning the key in a clockwise direction, the disk I4 is rotated relative to the disk l8 so that said disk 14 is also properly reset. When the bank case 5 is open at its bottom as illustrated, suitable means may be employed to releasably lock said case to the supporting base 1. However, if desired it will be apparent that the case may be closed at the bottom and a suitable door having a key operated lock provided in the bottom or rear wall of the bank case for the removal of the coins.

In Figs. 12, 13 and 14 of the drawings, I have illustrated "a modified form of the device in which the disk I4 is provided with only single month indications and the annular disk l8 with numbers indicating the days of the month. Therefore in this case the disk I4 has only 12 of the oiliset resiliently yieldable fingers I'I' which are of somewhat different form from those shown in Fig. 5, having elongated circumferential extensions ll'a each of which partially overlies an adjacent finger. tering disk of comparatively small diameter, the extension l'l'a may be of suificient length to provide for the requisite resilient yielding movement thereof. Also the annular disk I8 is provided with only a single lug 22 to coact with the fingers l1. Thus, only once in each complete revolution of the disk l8 will the month indicating disk I l be actuated by the pawl 36 carried by the operating lever.

As herein shown, each of the fingers Ila is provided with an opening 52 which is adapted to receive a protuberance 53 formed on the housing wall 23 to yieldably latch and retain the disk I4 in its set position after each operation thereof. This latch means readily yields to release the disk upon transmission of a rotary impulse thereto in the actuation of lever 32. The peripheral rim 24 of the housing wall Thus, with a regis-- 23 has a yieldable stop finger 54 struck inwardly therefrom which is adapted to coact with the teeth 2| of the disk l8 and prevent rotation of said disk in a clockwise direction. In resetting the disks, the key is engaged with a central aperture in the disk I4 and the two disks rotated together in an anticlockwise direction to first reset the disk It. The disk I4 is then rotated in a clockwise direction independently of the disk l8 which is held against such rotation and retained in its reset position by the yieldable finger 54.

It will of course be understood that in months having 31 days no coin will be inserted for the last day of the month. When the month of March has 28 days two additional dimes will be inserted on the last day of the month and when the month has 29 days one additional dime is inserted.

From the foregoing description considered in connection with the accompanying drawings the construction and manner of operation of the illustrated embodiments of the invention will be clearly understood. The various parts of the registering mechanism, may be fabricated from light sheet metal at very low manufacturing cost. It will be noted that the registering disks [4 and I8 are assembled in nested relation, said disks (with the exception of fingers l1) rotating in a common plane. Therefore the unit as a whole, including the housing plate 23, ring 26 and operating lever 30 is very thin and will occupy relatively little space within the bank case. The ring 26 being locked to the rim of the housing wall 23 by the lugs 25 retains the annular disk IS in proper cooperating relation with the disk l4 and the fingers I! of the latter disk being confined between the disk l8 and housing wall 23, prevent relative axial movement of said disks. Also the bead 28 on the housing plate, having bearing contact with the disk l4 maintains said disks in accurate vertical alignment. Unitary radial displacement of the registering disks relative to the housing wall 23 is prevented by flange 24.

It will also be apparent that a registering device of the above description lends itself to easy and quick assemblage of the various parts or elements by unskilled labor. The registering unit may also easily be removed and access had to the various parts for the purpose of repair or replacement by merely detaching the ring 26 from the rim of the housing plate 23.

I have herein disclosed several simple and practical embodiments of my improved registering mechanism, and it will be understood that such mechanism may be utilized in connection with coin collecting banks of various ornamental shapes or forms. Also the several cooperative parts of the mechanism may be susceptible of more or less mechanical modification or change in structural detail. According- 1y, I reserve the privilege of adopting all such legitimate variations in the form, construction and relative arrangement of the several elements as may fairly be comprehended within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In registering, mechanism a registering disk having peripherally spaced teeth, a manually movable operating member, an actuating pawl pivotally mounted on said member and having a part adapted to be positioned for engagement with one of said teeth to impart a step rotation to said registering disk in the movement of the operating member, a second registering disk concentrically related to the first named disk and having circumferentially spaced relatively yieldable parts, said tooth engaging part of the actuating pawl having a recess normally receiving the said spaced parts of the second named disk, and means on said first named disk adapted to coact with one of said resiliently yieldable parts, after a predetermined number of step rotations of the first named disk, to position said part for effective engagement by said pawl to impart a concurrent step rotation to the second named disk.

2 In registering mechanism, a pair of registering disks and an operating lever therefor relatively movable about a common axis, an actuating element mounted on said lever, one of said disks having peripheral means engaged by said element in each operative movement of the lever to impart a step rotation to said disk, a circumferential succession of equi-distantly spaced independently movable parts carried by the other registering disk and normally positioned out of coacting relation with said actuating element, and means on the first named disk operable, after a predetermined number of step rotations thereof, to displace one of said parts from its normal position for engagement by said actuating element, whereby movement of said element simultaneously imparts a step, rotation to both of said disks.

3. In registering mechanism, a pair of registering disks and an operating lever therefor relatively; movable about a common axis, anactuating element mounted on said lever, one of said disks having peripheral means engaged by said element in each operative movement of the lever to impart a step rotation to said disk, the other of said disks having integrally formed therewith a plurality of radially extending, circumferentially spaced, relatively yieldable parts normally positioned out of coacting relation with said actuating element, and means carried by the first named disk and operable after a predetermined number of step rotations thereof, to coact with one of said yieldable parts and position the same for engagement by said actuating element, whereby movement of said element simultaneously imparts a step rotation to both of said disks.

WILLIAM TAMOSCHAT. 

